Word: matted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GRAPPLERS MEET TIGER ON MAT TONIGHT...
Harvard grapplers left the mat victorious by a narrow margin Saturday night, in the New England Intercollegiate Championship, winning over Brown 19 to 16. M. I. T. came in last with a tally of nine points...
Four Harvard men came off the mat victorious last night in the New England Intercollegiate wrestling preliminaries, held in Hemenway Gymnasium. The final matches, taking place here tonight at 7.30 o'clock, will thus have six entries out of a possible seven from Harvard, as two Crimson men drew byes...
...Reisner of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition has been careful to point out that the inscription: "Lord-of-the-Two-Crowns, Sneferuw, the Horns Neb Ma'at," which was discovered on the gold mat of the new tomb at Giza does not apply at all to the person buried there. The point is a nice one and well taken. Sneferuw probably was either a term of endearment or a bill of lading. It is altogether too colloquial and common a word to take its place beside the great unpronounceable of Egyptian anthology...
...that time the man had been dead some four or five years, and it seemed advisable to complete his coffin as soon as possible. The head undertaker ordered them to put "Sneferuw," or any old name, on the gold mat, and so it was done. It didn't matter much anyway...